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and let them set the baseline of government employees should be trained. thank you. >> i yield back. >> like a dad, commerce and, yesterday i discovered i left my cell phone charger in richmond and when i came back to washington and my phone went down, i felt completely disengaged. i had to raise over to get back on line again. the enemy understand with more sophisticated economy that is now developing in the united states that if we can disrupt our cyber devotees, they can disable our responsibility. that is certainly true in a terrorist situation could i ask this question, do we have a unified american strategy for cybersecurity? i am aware that the department of defense set up an entire cyber command completely enacted to the terrapin of homeland security. the question one would repeat this do we have a unified approach in the united states government for this country and the protection? i think they probably don't, which means it is a danger of duplication or confusion. >> i have one more question, mr. chairman, if i could. i spent the last 12 years wi
and let them set the baseline of government employees should be trained. thank you. >> i yield back. >> like a dad, commerce and, yesterday i discovered i left my cell phone charger in richmond and when i came back to washington and my phone went down, i felt completely disengaged. i had to raise over to get back on line again. the enemy understand with more sophisticated economy that is now developing in the united states that if we can disrupt our cyber devotees, they can disable...
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while entire portions of our government -- all one half of -- almost one half of our government have no cuts at all. and defense spending increases, i have to tell you, are less than half of what you see in many of the other major spending programs in our government. they haven't -- the base defense budget has not been surging out of control. it's been increasing by the rate of inflation in the last several years. so defense is already, remember -- so defense has already, remember, reduced its budget as part of the first part of the b.c.a., the budget control act last august. that was $487 billion. so this sequester would be an additional $500 billion, should it go through. and it would be acumulative -- and it would be a cumulative reduction over ten years. that is a big reduction. it all terse the ability of the military to function in a way they've been functioning, and it threatens the ability for them to carry out the missions that they've been assigned to carry out today. chairman of the joint chiefs, general dempsey, said just this week, quote, "if sequestration occurs, it wil
while entire portions of our government -- all one half of -- almost one half of our government have no cuts at all. and defense spending increases, i have to tell you, are less than half of what you see in many of the other major spending programs in our government. they haven't -- the base defense budget has not been surging out of control. it's been increasing by the rate of inflation in the last several years. so defense is already, remember -- so defense has already, remember, reduced its...
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reports that make recommendations on duplicative programsing within government. we're already working to control the long-term cost of health care, to close tax loopholes and on defense spending we all know that there are still refrms that can be done. as you pointed out, we can get better fiscal controls, we can end of th some of the fraud ande in defense contracting. that's just the beginning of a list that i'm sure if we all dedicated ourselves to coming up with a compromise on how we avoid the sequester, we could do that. and we should not delay because our failure to resolve this issue is having damaging effects on our economy and it's only going to get worse if we don't find a solution. so, again, i thank you, senator collins, for your commitment to address this challenge that we face, for your willingness to come down and engage with me and to work -- for us to work together along with with our colleagues to try and get a resolution so we don't have these devastating cuts go into effect. thank you very much, mr. president. we yield the floor. mr. levin: mr
reports that make recommendations on duplicative programsing within government. we're already working to control the long-term cost of health care, to close tax loopholes and on defense spending we all know that there are still refrms that can be done. as you pointed out, we can get better fiscal controls, we can end of th some of the fraud ande in defense contracting. that's just the beginning of a list that i'm sure if we all dedicated ourselves to coming up with a compromise on how we avoid...
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government, the whole u.s. government, is going to be willing to actually live with that. >> and by that you mean within the executive branch, or are you referring to congress? >> i think certainly within the congress, but i think there's some within the executive branch as well. and, you know, i think that we're going to have to sit down and say can we live with this? because if we keep saying no to the rain cans are not allowed to have any enrichment capability, i see it as making perfect the enemy of good enough. and, unfortunately, it is a perfect that i do not think we will ever achieve. >> well, ken, you know, i totally agree, and jim walsh and i wrote a piece four years ago, but we were only following on other people who had been writing pieces. so it seems to me you have to crack through this barrier. i can remember in 1994 writing cable from moscow after i had spent weeks beating the hell to out of the russians on no nuclear program in iran, and you've got to be with us. and they said, why? they're npt
government, the whole u.s. government, is going to be willing to actually live with that. >> and by that you mean within the executive branch, or are you referring to congress? >> i think certainly within the congress, but i think there's some within the executive branch as well. and, you know, i think that we're going to have to sit down and say can we live with this? because if we keep saying no to the rain cans are not allowed to have any enrichment capability, i see it as making...
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from their government. our obligation is to work tirelessly in partnership with citizen watchdogs and the gao, to deliver the facts to the american people and bring genuine reform to federal bureaucracy. today, we are having our broadest oversight hearing that we have in any one congress. that's because the gao's report is, in fact, on all spending of government and all risk to government. and, in fact, is the most important report published. each two years, general dodaro and his staff assess all the risk to the government. in size of the risk, in dollars, but also in the likelihood of success or failure. this risk produces the top, if you will, highest threat. it also recognizes the success that sometimes occurs because of both gao and this committee's efforts to work with the government to reduce waste and risk to government. this year, by one account we lost $261 billion, or 7% of our total spending in fraud and waste. i might note that when you analyze that, or if you will, decadize it, that represents
from their government. our obligation is to work tirelessly in partnership with citizen watchdogs and the gao, to deliver the facts to the american people and bring genuine reform to federal bureaucracy. today, we are having our broadest oversight hearing that we have in any one congress. that's because the gao's report is, in fact, on all spending of government and all risk to government. and, in fact, is the most important report published. each two years, general dodaro and his staff assess...